Distilled Vinegar, in Latin, acetum Dist••∣latum.
Put six quarts of strong vinegar into an earth•• pan, evaporate about a quart in a bath, which is th phlegmatick part, and pour that which remains i•• to a glass or earthen Cucurbit, and distil it in a stron sand heat, until there remains nothing at botto•• but a substance like honey, keep this vinegar w•• stopt, some call it spirit of Vinegar.
Virtues Its principal use is to dissolve or precipi∣tate bodies, it is sometimes mixed in cordial potion to resist putrefaction, it is mixed with water, this •• called oxycrate, which is used to stop Hemorrhagies, a•• being outwardly applyed it asswages inflamations.
Dose. Half a spoonful of it may be taken at •• time in some proper liquor.